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Informix Error -25603: Attempt to prepare more than one statement before connecting to a database.

Cause and resolution

Attempt to prepare more than one statement before connecting to a database.

Check your application to make sure that you prepare only one of the CREATE DATABASE, START DATABASE, or DROP DATABASE statements before you connect to a database.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-25603 fires when an application prepares more than one of CREATE DATABASE, START DATABASE, or DROP DATABASE before connecting to a database — per the official guidance.

  1. More than one of CREATE DATABASE/START DATABASE/DROP DATABASE prepared before the connection is established, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Prepare only one of CREATE DATABASE, START DATABASE, or DROP DATABASE before connecting, per the official guidance.
Examples
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No specific triggering statement is documented beyond preparing more than one such statement pre-connection.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check the application for multiple pre-connection database-creation/start/drop statements, and reduce it to one.
Related Errors / Related Topics

No closely related error codes are cross-referenced for -25603 in this set yet.

More than one CREATE/START/DROP DATABASE statement was prepared before connecting — prepare only one.